HJR 266 Summary

• Recognizes the steel industry as an economic powerhouse that directly employs approximately 150,000 people in the United States, including 9,239 jobs in Alabama, and supports over one million U.S. jobs directly or indirectly.

• Notes that finished steel imports reached an all-time high of 29 percent of the U.S. market in 2015 after two years of historically elevated import levels.

• Urges Alabama's federal elected officials, including President Barack Obama, U.S. Senators Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions, and U.S. House members to enforce trade laws and protect the domestic steel industry from unfair foreign competition with China and other countries.

• Urges the U.S. Department of Commerce to maintain China's "non-market economy" status to preserve access to domestic trade remedy laws for U.S. companies and American workers.